Faculty Members

Assistant Professor
Ito Ayahito

Ph.D. Disability Science, Tohoku University, Japan, 2013

Affiliation: Research Institute for future design
researchmap： https://researchmap.jp/ayahito-ito/

Areas of specialization	Cognitive Neuroscience Social Neuroscience Experimental Psychology
Laboratory/research office
Current research topics
Educational background	2013: Doctor, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine 2010: Master, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine 2008: Bachelor, Hokkaido University
Professional background	2022-2022: 2022-: 2021-2022: 2019-: Lecturer, Research Institute for Future Design, Kochi University of Technology 2019-: , University of Southampton, Department of Psychology Visiting Fellow 2018-2019: , University of Southampton, Department of Psychology JSPS Overseas Research Fellow 2017-2018: , University of York, Department of Psychology JSPS Overseas Research Fellow 2017-2019: 2014-2017: 2013-2014: 2010-2012:
Licenses
Academic societies	Cognitive Neuroscience Society

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Research activities

Research papers	Authors: Ito A, Yoshida K, Aoki R, Fujii T, Kawasaki I, Hayashi A, Ueno A, Sakai S, Mugikura S, Takahashi S, Mori E Title: The role of the ventromedial prefrontal cortex in preferential decisions for own- and other-age faces Journal: Frontiers in Psychology, Vol. 13, p. 822234 Year: 2022 Authors: Kajimura S, Ito A, Izuma K Title: Brain knows who is on the same wavelength: Resting state connectivity can predict compatibility of a female–male relationship Journal: Cerebral Cortex , Vol. 31, pp. 5077-5089, Oxford university press Year: 2021 Authors: Ishioka T, Ito A, Miyaguchi H, Nakamura H, Sawamura D Title: Psychological Impact of COVID-19 on Occupational Therapists: An Online Survey in Japan Journal: American Journal of Occupational Therapy, Vol. 75, No. 7504205010, AOTA Press Year: 2021 Authors: Levorsen M, Ito A, Suzuki S, Izuma K Title: Testing the reinforcement learning hypothesis of social conformity Journal: Human Brain Mapping, Vol. 42, pp. 1328-1342 Year: 2021 Authors: Ito A, Ishioka T Title: Exploring the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the mental health of rehabilitation therapists Journal: Journal of Rehabilitation Neurosciences Year: 2020 Authors: Ito A, Yoshida K, Takeda K, Sawamura D, Murakami Y, Hasegawa A, Sakai S, Izuma K Title: The role of the ventromedial prefrontal cortex in automatic formation of impression and reflected impression Journal: Human Brain Mapping, John Wiley & Sons Year: 2020 Authors: Ito A, Kawachi Y, Kawasaki I, Fujii T Title: Effect of aging on choice-induced cognitive conflict Journal: Behavioural Brain Research Year: 2019 Authors: Murakami Y, Sakai S, Takeda K, Sawamura D, Yoshida K, Hirose T, Ikeda C, Mani H, Yamamoto T, Ito A Title: Autistic traits modulate the activity of the ventromedial prefrontal cortex in response to female faces Journal: Neuroscience Research, Elsevier B.V. Year: 2018 Authors: Ito A, Niwano K, Tanabe M, Sato Y, Fujii T Title: Activity changes in the left superior temporal sulcus reflect the effects of childcare training on young female students' perceptions of infants' negative facial expressions. Journal: Neuroscience Research Year: 2018 Authors: Kitayama S, Yanagisawa K, Ito A, Ueda R, Uchida Y, Abe N Title: Reduced orbitofrontal cortical volume is associated with interdependent self-construal. Journal: PNAS Year: 2017 Authors: Ito A, Fujii T, Abe N, Kawasaki I, Hayashi A, Ueno A, Yoshida K, Sakai S, Mugikura S, Takahashi S, Mori E Title: Gender differences in ventromedial prefrontal cortex activity associated with valuation of faces Journal: Neuroscience Year: 2016 Authors: Mugikura S, Abe N, Ito A, Kawasaki I, Ueno A, Takahashi S, Fujii T Title: Medial temporal lobe activity associated with the successful retrieval of destination memory Journal: Experimental Brain Research Year: 2016 Authors: Kawasaki I, Ito A, Fujii T, Ueno A, Yoshida K, Sakai S, Mugikura S, Takahashi S, Mori E Title: Differential activation of the ventromedial prefrontal cortex between male and female givers of social reputation Journal: Neuroscience Research Year: 2015 Authors: Ito A, Abe N, Kawachi Y, Kawasaki I, Ueno A, Yoshida K, Sakai S, Matsue Y, Fujii T Title: Distinct neural correlates of the preference-related valuation of supraliminally and subliminally presented faces Journal: Human Brain Mapping Year: 2015 Authors: Abe N, Fujii T, Ito A, Ueno A, Koseki Y, Hashimoto R, Hayashi A, Mugikura S, Takahashi S, Mori E Title: The neural basis of dishonest decisions that serve to harm or help the target Journal: Brain and Cognition Year: 2014 Authors: Ueno A, Ito A, Kawasaki I, Kawachi Y, Yoshida K, Murakami Y, Sakai S, Iijima T, Matsue Y, Fujii T Title: Neural activity associated with enhanced facial attractiveness by cosmetics use Journal: Neuroscience Letters Year: 2014 Authors: Hayashi A, Abe N, Fujii T, Ito A, Ueno A, Koseki Y, Mugikura S, Takahashi S, Mori E Title: Dissociable neural systems for moral judgment of anti- and pro-social lying Journal: Brain Research Year: 2014 Authors: Ito A, Abe N, Fujii T, Hayashi A, Ueno A, Mugikura S, Takahashi S, Mori E Title: The contribution of the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex to the preparation for deception and truth-telling Journal: Brain Research Year: 2012 Authors: Ito A, Fujii T, Ueno A, Koseki Y, Tashiro M, Mori E Title: Neural basis of pleasant and unpleasant emotions induced by social reputation Journal: Neuroreport Year: 2011 Authors: Ito A, Abe N, Fujii T, Ueno A, Koseki Y, Hashimoto R, Mugikura S, Takahashi S, Mori E Title: The role of the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex in deception when remembering neutral and emotional events Journal: Neuroscience Research Year: 2011
Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research from the Japanese government	Project title: Neural correlates of preference formation for faces Category: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B) Project number: 16K16074 Project period: 2016/4/-2018/3/ Total budget amount: 3,900,000 yen Keywords:

Research papers

Authors: Ito A, Yoshida K, Aoki R, Fujii T, Kawasaki I, Hayashi A, Ueno A, Sakai S, Mugikura S, Takahashi S, Mori E
Title: The role of the ventromedial prefrontal cortex in preferential decisions for own- and other-age faces
Journal: Frontiers in Psychology, Vol. 13, p. 822234
Year: 2022
Authors: Kajimura S, Ito A, Izuma K
Title: Brain knows who is on the same wavelength: Resting state connectivity can predict compatibility of a female–male relationship
Journal: Cerebral Cortex , Vol. 31, pp. 5077-5089, Oxford university press
Year: 2021
Authors: Ishioka T, Ito A, Miyaguchi H, Nakamura H, Sawamura D
Title: Psychological Impact of COVID-19 on Occupational Therapists: An Online Survey in Japan
Journal: American Journal of Occupational Therapy, Vol. 75, No. 7504205010, AOTA Press
Year: 2021
Authors: Levorsen M, Ito A, Suzuki S, Izuma K
Title: Testing the reinforcement learning hypothesis of social conformity
Journal: Human Brain Mapping, Vol. 42, pp. 1328-1342
Year: 2021
Authors: Ito A, Ishioka T
Title: Exploring the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the mental health of rehabilitation therapists
Journal: Journal of Rehabilitation Neurosciences
Year: 2020
Authors: Ito A, Yoshida K, Takeda K, Sawamura D, Murakami Y, Hasegawa A, Sakai S, Izuma K
Title: The role of the ventromedial prefrontal cortex in automatic formation of impression and reflected impression
Journal: Human Brain Mapping, John Wiley & Sons
Year: 2020
Authors: Ito A, Kawachi Y, Kawasaki I, Fujii T
Title: Effect of aging on choice-induced cognitive conflict
Journal: Behavioural Brain Research
Year: 2019
Authors: Murakami Y, Sakai S, Takeda K, Sawamura D, Yoshida K, Hirose T, Ikeda C, Mani H, Yamamoto T, Ito A
Title: Autistic traits modulate the activity of the ventromedial prefrontal cortex in response to female faces
Journal: Neuroscience Research, Elsevier B.V.
Year: 2018
Authors: Ito A, Niwano K, Tanabe M, Sato Y, Fujii T
Title: Activity changes in the left superior temporal sulcus reflect the effects of childcare training on young female students' perceptions of infants' negative facial expressions.
Journal: Neuroscience Research
Year: 2018
Authors: Kitayama S, Yanagisawa K, Ito A, Ueda R, Uchida Y, Abe N
Title: Reduced orbitofrontal cortical volume is associated with interdependent self-construal.
Journal: PNAS
Year: 2017
Authors: Ito A, Fujii T, Abe N, Kawasaki I, Hayashi A, Ueno A, Yoshida K, Sakai S, Mugikura S, Takahashi S, Mori E
Title: Gender differences in ventromedial prefrontal cortex activity associated with valuation of faces
Journal: Neuroscience
Year: 2016
Authors: Mugikura S, Abe N, Ito A, Kawasaki I, Ueno A, Takahashi S, Fujii T
Title: Medial temporal lobe activity associated with the successful retrieval of destination memory
Journal: Experimental Brain Research
Year: 2016
Authors: Kawasaki I, Ito A, Fujii T, Ueno A, Yoshida K, Sakai S, Mugikura S, Takahashi S, Mori E
Title: Differential activation of the ventromedial prefrontal cortex between male and female givers of social reputation
Journal: Neuroscience Research
Year: 2015
Authors: Ito A, Abe N, Kawachi Y, Kawasaki I, Ueno A, Yoshida K, Sakai S, Matsue Y, Fujii T
Title: Distinct neural correlates of the preference-related valuation of supraliminally and subliminally presented faces
Journal: Human Brain Mapping
Year: 2015
Authors: Abe N, Fujii T, Ito A, Ueno A, Koseki Y, Hashimoto R, Hayashi A, Mugikura S, Takahashi S, Mori E
Title: The neural basis of dishonest decisions that serve to harm or help the target
Journal: Brain and Cognition
Year: 2014
Authors: Ueno A, Ito A, Kawasaki I, Kawachi Y, Yoshida K, Murakami Y, Sakai S, Iijima T, Matsue Y, Fujii T
Title: Neural activity associated with enhanced facial attractiveness by cosmetics use
Journal: Neuroscience Letters
Year: 2014
Authors: Hayashi A, Abe N, Fujii T, Ito A, Ueno A, Koseki Y, Mugikura S, Takahashi S, Mori E
Title: Dissociable neural systems for moral judgment of anti- and pro-social lying
Journal: Brain Research
Year: 2014
Authors: Ito A, Abe N, Fujii T, Hayashi A, Ueno A, Mugikura S, Takahashi S, Mori E
Title: The contribution of the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex to the preparation for deception and truth-telling
Journal: Brain Research
Year: 2012
Authors: Ito A, Fujii T, Ueno A, Koseki Y, Tashiro M, Mori E
Title: Neural basis of pleasant and unpleasant emotions induced by social reputation
Journal: Neuroreport
Year: 2011
Authors: Ito A, Abe N, Fujii T, Ueno A, Koseki Y, Hashimoto R, Mugikura S, Takahashi S, Mori E
Title: The role of the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex in deception when remembering neutral and emotional events
Journal: Neuroscience Research
Year: 2011

Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research from the Japanese government

Project title: Neural correlates of preference formation for faces
Category: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
Project number: 16K16074
Project period: 2016/4/-2018/3/
Total budget amount: 3,900,000 yen
Keywords:

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Social activities

Committee roles	Guest Associate Editor (Topic editor), Frontiers in Psychology (Cognitive Science) , 2021 Review Editor, Frontiers in Psychology (Emotion Science) , 2021

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